This article is intented to investigate the process of Stalin's New Religious Policy and its influence through organization and activity of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church(CAROC) established by Stalin in 1943, which exclusiv...
This article is intented to investigate the process of Stalin's New Religious Policy and its influence through organization and activity of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church(CAROC) established by Stalin in 1943, which exclusively executed Stalin' Religious Policy.
To examine the process of organization and activity of CAROC based on primary sources is to show substance of Stalin's Religious Policy. For this study, first of all, the process of organization of CAROC and the reaction of the soviet bureaucratic organization are important. The second is the process of organization and activity of representativestynonaoaoseaasre) in the local government.
Consequently, would say that this study provides an important historical clue for understanding the correlation between Stalin's New Religious Policy and Russian Orthodox Church's revival as a social institution in atheistic state. In addition, this research helps to know how the Russian Orthodox Church could revive rapidly in post-soviet Russia.